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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. Even in protected areas of north-east India, prey densities are very low. Only in protected areas in southern and central India (e.g. It is February and evenings are cold. Against snakes,” he said.

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A Bird Rehabber Goes Birding. And Thwarts Mongooses.

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The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. India founded and, along with Managing Director Peter Leon Mmassey, runs the Tanzanian Children’s Fund. “You But that was seven years ago. I demanded.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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Second, it abandoned the standard format for field guides established by Roger Tory Peterson (who wrote the book’s Forward), succinct lists of field marks and arrows pointing them out, to engage in long paragraphs discussing how a hawk soaring above might be identified. Published in 1988, Hawks in Flight was unique for its time.